Cefco to rebuild

Fikes Wholesale will build a new Cefco Convenience Store to replace the one the company tore down last week at Interstate 40 and South Bell Street, spokesman Joe Paclebar said.

The city of Amarillo issued a permit allowing store, fuel canopies and car wash buildings at 1917 S. Bell St. to be razed, city Building Official Scott McDonald said.

The permit also allowed demolition of a house-turned-office north of the store at 1913 S. Bell St., McDonald said.

Both properties are owned by 7S Investments, a limited liability company managed by Raymond W. Smith of Temple, according to Potter-Randall Appraisal District records and corporate documents filed with the Texas secretary of state.

The convenience store that, for many years, occupied the corner at Bell and I-40 is one of more than 60 former Taylor Marts that Fikes purchased in 2012 from Taylor Petroleum Cos., headquartered in Amarillo.

“Rest assured, our goal is to give facelifts to all that we can going forward,” Paclebar said. “Those Taylor stores are pretty tired.”

Fikes tore down a former Taylor Mart in Claude and built a new Cefco store there, Paclebar said. It opened last week.

“We’re going to be doing more in 2014,” he said.

The city has not yet issued a building permit for Cefco’s Bell Street project, McDonald said.

PRAD lists the appraised value of the property at 1917 S. Bell at $304,765, with $244,800 of that being the market value of the land.

The appraised value of the property at 1913 S. Bell is $89,965, according to PRAD.

Cefco has more than 254 stores in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, its website said.